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PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed a high-powered panel of people with expertise in intelligence, finance and academia to clean-up the State Security Agency (SSA) following allegations of misuse of millions of rand of state funds.

His announcement yesterday comes as the country reels from a spate of cash-in-transit heists which, in some circles, was casting doubt on the ability of crime intelligence services to trace and apprehend the perpetrators.

However, Ramaphosa made his intention to appoint the panel known in May this year in Parliament after the SSA, then headed by Arthur Fraser, was entangled in internal wranglings and rivalries which threatened state security.

Yesterday, the Presidency